Word: mid-air
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...Administration persuaded Saudi Arabia and other gulf states to stop letting Iraqi warplanes use Saudi airfields, since such complicity might provoke Iranian reprisals. But the Saudis feared they might be attacked by Iran anyway. At their request, the U.S. dispatched four highly sophisticated airborne warning planes, two tankers for mid-air refueling, a ground radar network and 436 U.S. military personnel to fly and operate all that equipment...
Schramm makes his dives more precise by breaking them down into such minute detail that if someone were to stop him in mid-air, he said he could tell them exactly where he was and how many revolutions he had completed...
Thomas grasped the bar. He swung around once, twice, building speed and momentum for a spread-legged somersault over the bar, reaching in mid-air to grab the bar again before swinging into a perfect handstand. For a moment, he was frozen, balanced perfectly upside down. Then he flipped into action again, knifing his inverted body through a double "German" giant swing, arching his back into another handstand, twirling, spinning. Finally, tucking his knees into his chest, Thomas whipped into his dismount: a double somersault with a half-twist on each revolution. If he faltered on landing, took one steadying...
...Billy Blood's short drop kicks and the belowpar play of Crimson mid-fielders Michael Smith and Andy Kronfeld, Rhode Island mounted several attacks. Only Blood's acrobatics in the net kept the visitors off the scoreboard. Blood raced repeatedly out of the goalmouth to smother dangerous crosses and soft shots. At 41:15 he made a miraculous save with a full length dive to block a low shot a yard off the foot of a URI forward. Moments later, Blood thwarted URI again leaping into mid-air to tip a soft free-kick wide...
They have only one thing to do and they do it only once, mating in mid-air and then dying a horrible death. The female workers sometimes feed the young 1.300 times a day. When they dislike or distrust their leader, they cluster closely around her and crush or sting her to death. It is a process long known as "balling the queen...